Editing Point of Beginning Mx. Science (section)

=Mx. Science=

[[File:Mx. Science sketch.jpg|thumb|Concept sketch Mx. Science in research diary (de Wildt, 2022)]]
[[File:Mx. Science mindmap (sm).jpg|thumb|Mx. Science associative mindmap in research diary (de Wildt, 2022)]]

"Mx. Science", is a situated, playful figure, that invites us to reimagine how we make space for "difference" within "scientific" context, like conferences, meetings or the laboratory. 

Mx. Science is performed by me, a non-Inuit researcher conducting research from a western educational institute and as part of the BearWatch team. In the context of BearWatch workshops, or the Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) conference, the performance can therefore not be seen as an intervention: a movement from the outside-in. Neither can my use of make-up and choice of clothing and attributes be understood as fitting fully "inside" the social contracts of the spaces within which I have introduced Mx. Science. Mx. science is therefore rather a diffractive event, proposed from the liminal. Acting neither from the inside, nor the outside.

Acting from such a liminal space, I made sure to receive permission from the ASM organizers, as well as explicit sanction and input from community-partners, representatives and participants, and the BearWatch PI's for the Gjoa Haven, BearWatch project workshops.

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